Word: subjectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Francis B. Sayre L.L.B. '12 of the Law School Faculty will give the first lecture on the subject "America's Outlook in World Affairs". Professor Sayre also headed the program last year when the course was first instituted, when approximately 250 persons were registered in the extension course. The lectures are given once a week...
Gasoline. Can a state legislature fix the price of gasoline? In 1927 the Tennessee legislature had declared gasoline a "public utility," subject to state price-fixing. The Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana and the Texas Co. protested. The Supreme Court agreed with them. It ruled that gasoline is one of the "ordinary commodities of trade" and "not affected with public interest" and therefore not a public utility...
...obvious of course that abnormal psychology is a subject that is loaded with dynamite: and pregnant with possibilities for the disintegration of character. It exposes the combustibles at the springs of life. When a man witnesses the transformation of a human being from a state of poised serenity to one of maniacal possession: and stands face to face with the inexpressible fury of concentrated spiritual rage, it is inexpressibly brought home to him that the potentialities for destructive power within the human mind are immeasurable and as appalling as a cosmic cataclysm. But when one feels all these things...
Youth is characteristically in search of subjects that have the ingredients of liveliness; subjects that appeal to their imaginations. They have a special predilection for "new" subjects; and if a new subject, no matter what its nature, can start a young man on the road to the intellectual life it is fulfilling an important function. Discipline may be provided by other courses, physical chemistry...
Most Americans come to college without cultural background, without an intimation that the contemplative factor in life is one of the supreme experiences, even more thrilling than kicking a goal from the field in the stadium. Psychopathology, because it is a new subject, and because it deals with the spirit of man in all its vigorous vagaries, progressive and regressive, and hence is the subject par excellence for the pre-occupation of man, has the necessary explosives for lighting the intellectual fuse in the minds of at least some undergraduates. No young man should go through college unburned. It does...